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Ganelon

World

Also known as: Ganelon (a location referenced in dialogue)

First appears in Ashes of Man, Chapter 26

Ganelon, catalogued as DB-639D, is an inhabited but hostile world in the DB-639 system with a poisonous orange atmosphere. It is the site of a former MINOS Extrasolarian fortress, which is destroyed by Imperial forces during a major military engagement. The world has a moon that served as a Cielcin base during the same campaign.

Geography

Ganelon has a poisonous orange atmosphere that immediately compromises pressurized structures when outer walls are breached. The surface features an umber desert and a green river visible from the elevated dark tower of the MINOS fortress complex. The world has at least one moon, which the Cielcin used as a base and which features trench and tunnel networks. Following the atomic destruction of the MINOS fortress, a pillar of black cloud and radiation is expected to linger in Ganelon's environment for a thousand years or more.

Notable Locations

The MINOS Fortress (DB-639D): A large Extrasolarian installation situated in Ganelon's umber desert, comprising pressurized garden domes and a central dark tower that rises above the rest of the complex. The fortress contained the MINOS Lodge's dark tower, where the Elect-Masters operated a transceiver system for mind-transfer via a radio dish on the tower's exterior spire. A landing tarmac and command post were located nearby. The fortress is destroyed by atomic weapons delivered by Captains Tenavian and Dayne after the Imperial assault; no survivors remain on Ganelon's surface when the atomics fall. The Cielcin Moon: Ganelon's moon served as a Cielcin base housing three worldships' worth of forces. Imperial and Jaddian forces captured one of the Cielcin worldships in orbit, disabling it and trapping its crew beneath the moon's surface. Tenavian and Dayne report bitter fighting in the moon's trenches and tunnels before Jaddian Captain Serenelli's force breaks through to the command center.

Information current through Ashes of Man, Chapter 30